Re: Not to beat a dead horse...but

   for various understandable and also some reasons I don't have the background knowledge or
facts to understand, IBM appears to have chosen not to license any of these products on
Hercules.
   As far as I as mostly a lurker can see, no one has actually offered to meet what ever price
IBM might ask. I do understand that in the old PCM days, when asked to license on a unrated
machine, IBM would quote the maximum price for the top of the line available IBM hardware.
   Of course it wouldn't even run, but I'd bet the quoted price for any of these OS's on the
current max 24 way z990 would range into the atmospheric if not astronomic levels.

   And yes, I expect that at least some Herculeans have at least informally approached IBM on
these matters.

etpcorp wrote:
> 
>   I've seen in many a threads on the various Hercules groups about
> IBM's refusal to make more recent versions of VM/VSE/MVS available
> for hercules...but...
> 
>   Has anyone proposed to IBM that obsolete versions, such as the SP
> versions of the OS be made available for sale to hobbyists?  I don't
> know if y'all would be willing to pay for it, but I would probably
> shell out a little cash for VM/SP or VSE/SP to run on Hercules.
> 
>   As for me, my first experience on the mainframe was as an operator
> on DOS/VSE.  I don't remember the version, but I believe it was the
> version that was the immediate predecessor to VSE/SP.
> 
>   Just a thought.  I know we would like it for free, but it is IBM's
> property, even if the SP versions have long since been obsolete.
> 
> Regards to Herculeans.
> 
> David
> 
> 
> 
> Yahoo! Groups Links
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> 

-- 
Dave Gibney
Pullman WA


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